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I kinda simultaneously hate and love that a lot of the features of slop writing were taught to me as "the correct, and only correct, way of writing formal English" and now I have an excuse/challenge to write all my shit like an unhinged grammar anarchist

• I'm gonna miss bulleted lists ngl
• No more parallel form? damn gonna miss that too actually
• A lot of its overused vocab words are ones I used to use for conciseness and to avoid repeating words too close together in the text

LLMs hedge constantly: "can", "may", "might", "could potentially", "it's possible that". Human experts state things. If you know it, say it. If you don't, say you don't.

if your background is even remotely medical or biology research-based, even the world's foremost expert is going to use a lot of hedging language because nobody wants to sound like an idiot for claiming "X gene does Y" then some grad student publishes a paper next year with smoking gun evidence that X gene isn't even expressed in vivo lmao

Lack of AI is going to be a premium service now. Freaking capitalism!

"The pen is mightier than the Claude"

I was wondering the other day if there is a list of LLM-isms somewhere, like "It's not X, but Y", em-dashes, overly confident statements, etc

edit: https://github.com/NousResearch/autonovel/blob/master/ANTI-SLOP.md

i ain't gonna lie, if your stuff can be easily confused as AI slop, it might aswell be AI slop lol

This would be a great use of PGP

If I wanted to handwrite something, I'd have to make a video of me writing it so people could see the pauses and stuff, and be reasonably confident I didn't copy from an AI.

One of the things I found out -- there's enough of my IRC logs ingested by these models, they can already approximate my personal writing style, in a low quality way

The writers interviewed did use AI but don't want to get caught so they edit imperfections into the AI's output. They're just trying to fool the detectors.